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Rome2Rio wants more developers using its API so access is now free

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Rome2Rio started as a consumer-facing travel search site, but shifted its focus to B2B partnerships in May 2012 by charging developers to use its API –- a plan that apparently didn't pan out as planned.

-Samantha Shankman

Excerpt from The Next Web
Feb 08, 2013 4:32 am

Until now, third parties have had to pay to access Rome2rio’s API, following the company’s shift to a B2B model in May last year. With the new access options, developers will be able to make 100,000 search requests per month without charge.

The idea here is to boost adoption of the service, encouraging sites to offer multi-modal travel search. Melbourne, Australia-based Rome2rio CEO Rod Cuthbert believes that “any site that’s serious about selling travel in Europe and Asia has to offer multi-modal search sooner or later.”

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  • Rod Cuthbert

    Samantha, we obviously did a poor job with our press release if your take-away was that our shift to a B2B model last year didn’t work out! It worked out so well that over the last month or two we’ve had 2-3 enquiries each day, which started to become an admin nightmare. That’s why we included an auto sign-up facility with this release of the freemium model. Sorry for misleading you…

  • Samantha Shankman

    Thank you for the comment, Rod. I was just on a call with a startup today that used Rome2Rio as the example of multi-modal search. Do keep us updated.

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